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     Welcome to St George Class

We are a class of year 5 pupils in Upper Key Stage 2.

Our class teacher: Miss Fairey

Teacher email address

faira127@mastacademy.co.uk

Please email if you have anymore questions about St. George.

I'd be glad to help you!

Our Curriculum

Recently, we adopted a curriculum which is published by Cornerstones. English and all foundation subjects: History, Geography, Art, DT and Music are taught through our termly themes. Cornerstones will provide our children with a good level of challenge, giving them opportunities to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding across the full range of National Curriculum subjects.

Year 5 will experience 3 Imaginative Learning Projects in a year. Each individual project is split into sections, which see children progress through four stages of learning: Engage, Develop, Innovate and Express. We are confident that our curriculum will instil a curiosity and love of learning/school in our children. It will help them maintain their well-being and provide opportunities for each of them to achieve their full potential. In every lesson and homework piece, we make sure that there is an accessible challenge to extend learning and we even have a termly curriculum challenge for all the whole school to take part in! 

Our Term 1 and 2 Topic
Over the year, the children will learn many things through our projects and our topic for terms 1 and 2 is:

'Dynamic Dynasties'

 Key texts

                  Mulan and other Legendary Stories from China retold by Barbara Laban

Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan

In Dynamic Dynasties, children will learn about periods of ancient Chinese history. They will explore a timeline of the first five Chinese dynasties and learn about the legends surrounding the beginning of Chinese civilisation. They will take a deep dive into the history of the Bronze Age Shang Dynasty and explore evidence found in the ancient city of Yin. They will study oracle bones, learn about religious beliefs and explore bronze artefacts that set the Shang Dynasty apart from other civilisations. They will also study the hierarchy of the Shang Dynasty and discover who was powerful and who was powerless. They will look at warfare and find out how bronze technology gave the Shang Dynasty an advantage over their enemies. They will learn about the life of the great military leader, Fu Hao. The children will then look at significant aspects of life after the Shang Dynasty, including the work of Confucius in the Zhou Dynasty, the short but significant reign of Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin Dynasty and the importance of the Silk Road created by the Han Dynasty. To end the project, your child will find out how ancient China’s lasting legacy can be seen in the world today.

PE

P.E days are on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Wednesday: Outdoor

Thursday: Indoor

Please ensure your child brings their PE kit to change into on these days.  

As the weather changes, children may need jogging bottoms if we are outside. Children must be able to take out their earings before the lesson and are responsible for looking after these. If your child is unable to remove their ear rings, they must come into school with tape on their ears or you can show your child how to apply the tape themselves before the lesson. 

PE kit: White t-shirt, dark shorts or jogging bottoms, plimsolls or trainers. 

If your child cannot partake in PE, we expect to receive written confirmation of this unless the class teacher has already been informed previously. PE is a compulsory element of the National Curriculum. 

Homework 

Homework will be sent home on a Friday to be returned the following Thursday.

There will be a maths, spelling and literacy/reading comprehension task for the children to complete. Homework is adapted to suit the abilities of the children and each piece of homework includes an accessible challenge to ensure that all children are being extended in their learning.

Homework should be returned to school by the following Thursday. In addition to this, children will have a weekly spelling test every Friday based on the spellings sent home the previous week. Furthermore, children are expected to read their book, sent home from school, read their KO and practice all their times tables up to 12s for 5 minutes each, every night.

Children can practice the recall of their times tables on Times Table Rock Stars whereby homework will be set each week. To access TTRS, children only need to input their Accelerated Reader logins. 

Knowledge Organisers

Please remember to look at your Knowledge Organisers each night at home and quiz your child on the different interesting facts on both sides! The information on these sheets should be easily recalled by the children once the topic is completed. Children may also wish to extend their learning beyond the knowledge organiser if they have a specific interest in the topic. Please use the knowledge organiser as a starting point for any extra study.

The knowledge organiser for our current topic, 'Dynamic Dynasties', will be sent home with your children.

Behaviour Expectations

St. George class are expected to follow the school’s Golden Rules at all times and are encouraged and rewarded for being ‘Green to go’.

The Golden Rules are:

If, after a reminder, a child continues to break a rule, their name will be moved on our class traffic lights. Each colour (yellow, orange and red) has a number of possible consequences, such as loss of play time. If a child has to move their name, they given the opportunity to earn their way back to green by sticking to the golden rules and showing “green to go” behaviour.

Attendance & Punctuality

The school is committed to ensuring a high rate of attendance for all. We want all of our children to have a 97% attendance rate over each school year. We ask all parents to inform the school before 9.30am on the first day of absence and to send a letter to the class teacher on the day their child returns from absence. The school will phone/contact parents on the first day of absence if the parent has not contacted the school. If contact cannot be made with the parent then the child's absence will be marked as unauthorised. Ten sessions ( 5 days ) of unauthorised absences can lead to the local authority issuing fines. The fine will be £120 per parent per child, but if paid before 21 days, it is reduced to £60 per child, per parent. This money goes to Medway council not the school. Repeated or unexplained absences will be followed up with more phone calls, letters home, requests for medical certificates and a home visit from the School Family Support Worker - so it is important to keep the school informed. All contact with families regarding pupil absence is logged systematically to show the lengths the school are going to, to get the children into school. Children are asked to be punctual.  The registers will be taken at 8.55am for juniors. Lateness and absence will be noted on the child’s Annual School Report. 100% attendance is rewarded regularly at the end of every term and year.

Uniform

Our uniform consists of:

• a white shirt or polo shirt that must be tucked in
• grey skirt, trousers or pinafore dress- black is acceptable
• a navy blue sweatshirt or cardigan 
• blue and white checked dresses can also be worn in the summer
• long hair tied back
• No jewellery apart from religious or small studs

Walking permits

If you would like your child to walk home in UKS2, you need to write into the office to request a walking permit.

UKS2 siblings can walk junior siblings home, but not infants. Mobile phones are only to be sent into school if your child is walking home without adult supervision and these must be given to the teacher on arrival.

Rewards and Prizes

The children are rewarded in class by getting verbal commendations or awards for following the Golden rules or for producing beautiful work. Green to Go Star of the week, Maths Star of the week and Literacy Star of the week are nominated and rewarded during class praise assembly on a Friday morning. The year 5 children can also receive a whole class reward each term! The children choose a treat and, working as a class, they aim to embody our golden rules throughout the school. This term the children have voted to have a film!

We understand that every child is unique and so, we adapt our learning to suit all needs. Similarly, if your child is registered with the school as having specific special learning needs, please look at the home learning links to meet their requirements attached to this link. Thank you.

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